As 2012 draws to a close, I wish everyone a happy new year! Thanks so much for reading, commenting, and sharing ideas with me this year. If ...
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Cheap, homemade Christmas ornaments
Our Christmas tree has a few purchased ornaments on it, but most are paper things I've made. For a recap of the tutorials: Modular balls...
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DIY paper teardrop ornaments
I made a few more ornaments for my mostly paper-decorated tree. It's been super gloomy outside, so the corner of the living room with th...
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Generate mini typographic posters
If you've got a favorite quote, you can visit recitethis.com and turn it into a graphic for display on websites and blogs. If you don...
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Make an origami penguin
I folded this little origami penguin by following the step-by-step video tutorial from Jo Nakashima. All the pre-creasing went well, but th...
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A roundup of holiday wallpaper freebies
If your desktop, phone, or tablet could use a dash of festivity, download these free Christmas wallpapers in assorted sizes. Above, wallpape...
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Make your own Lego ornaments
Designer and photographer Chris McVeigh creates objects out of Legos and shares instructions for how to build your own Lego Christmas ornam...
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Free font: Grand Hotel
If you need a sweet, retro script that would look pretty on holiday cards, try Grand Hotel, a free OpenType font by Astigmatic. Get it right...
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DIY geometric Christmas tree card
I tried out a simple, geometric Christmas tree card made from solid-color papers. To make your own, get my template file right here . You co...
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Fabric sighting on a book cover
I don't know anything about this soon-to-be-released sewing book, other than that it has one of my fabrics on the cover. A fun surprise!...
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Download free typographic wallpapers
Fifty Five Hi's has a fun selection of typographic wallpapers for the taking. Help yourself right here to some quotes and illustration...
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Calligraphy gift tags and more
The annual 24 days of Free Christmas Downloads has kicked off at Suite Muffin Suite. Ms. Muffin has designed some lovely hand-drawn calligr...
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Make a geometric origami garland
If you like folding paper, here's a pretty origami garland to try. Each "bead" takes half a sheet of origami paper. (Preferabl...
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Printable monogram gift tags
'Tis the season for gift wrapping! To help us, Sarah Khandjian has made sets of free, monogram gift tags to download and print. They...
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Printable advent city
Have you seen this cool, make-it-yourself advent calendar at Mr. Printables? Build a set of geometric-patterned boxes that look like buildi...
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How to sew cases, bags, and buckets
Check out these instructions for making things that hold other things. Maybe you know somebody who needs a handmade gift? iPad or Kindle cov...
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Origami paper stars for garlands or gifts
Making paper Christmas decorations is one of my favorite things this time of year. I found instructions here for making an 8-pointed origam...
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Nice wallpapers for artists and makers
I love these hand-lettered desktop wallpapers by Mary Kate McDevitt for We Make . They're sized for various screens and devices. Choose...
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Customize and print a free holiday card
Hope you had a lovely break! I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that Christmas lights have popped up all over the neighbor...
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Apple sweet potato juice
I'm off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving, but first I wanted to show you my new favorite orange thing: apple sweet potato juice. It...
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Handmade holiday gift ideas
The long Thanksgiving weekend coming up might allow some time for making handmade Christmas presents. Here's a sampling of tutorials fro...
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Style quizzes: 80s hair, first ladies and more
Completely frivolous Friday afternoon fun: taking fashion quizzes at MyLifetime.com . Find out if you're a fashionista . Do you know wha...
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Free Thanksgiving printable invites and tags
If you want to get fancy this Thanksgiving, the generous designers of the interwebs are offering lots of free printable invitations, tags, a...
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